The Saunders tanks were rolling out for the first time this season as it was clear they were going against their first school for the Match. Maginot Girls Academy; Kay looked at Brook whom she assigned as her gunner and Naomi as her loader. Kay looked at Brook as she had a warning.
"If you decide thinking that you will kill people with this sport I will personally smash your face into the tank without hesitation." Himari hissed as she was willing to use violence to justify her needs. Naomi looked at her as she didn't like how the girl was handling herself.
"Himari, you seriously need to tone it down. You can't slam your fists into a student just because she is afraid. That isn't how discipline works." Naomi told her as she wanted her to maintain some stability. Kay looked at her.
"Ya'll gonna die one day and I will have a speech while I hold your guts while screaming into the heavens." Kay told her as Alisa was picking up radio waves from within the flag tank.
"Kay we located their flag tank." Alisa told them as she knew the flag tank was heading off somewhere. Kay soon snapped back as she knew she needed to put a plan into action.
"Okay 5 tanks of Baker Company, split off to see if we can take out some of their lighter tanks. Adam Company on me. Let's have some fun." Kay told her. 5 Sherman tanks split off as they went to locate the flag tank while the other 5 were going to distract the enemy long enough so they could eliminate the flag tank. The Sherman tanks split off as they quickly located the Char B1 flag tank as Kay began barking orders. Naomi, load Armor piercing and, Brook waits for my command before we can fire. The tanks in Kay's squad were beginning to prepare themselves as they were looking for the opportunity to fire. Baker Company was baiting the other tanks away as Kay soon saw an opportunity to fire. "Fire now!" Brook looked away as she pulled the trigger as two other Sherman tanks fired at the same time. The shells were targeting the flag tank in the rear as all the shells exploded with a combination of red, white and blue firecrackers. A white flag came up as the flag tank was easily knocked out, Baker company came along as they noticed the flag tank was taken out.
"Flawless victory Kay!" One of the students from Baker Company shouted as they had no tanks knocked out from the match as Kay cheered, it turned out their concentrated firepower managed to knock them out long before they were able to receive any major damage to knock out even a single Sherman. Kay looked over to them as she knew what this meant.
"Party time?" Kay asked. The other students cheered but Brook just gulped as she knew she wanted nothing to do with this. The tanks soon began making their way back to the ship as they knew Kay was going to throw another Barbecue.
Brook decided to head out by herself as she wanted to do nothing about this as she soon made her way to where Yuri was holding her meetings. Brook got there as the door was open as she looked up and saw a sign for recruitment to their group. Brook soon began to read it.
"If you want to get our old way of life back, join this group and we should hold a meeting to get Kay and the other student council out." She looked inside as she saw a line inside as more students were signing themselves up. Many of them being newer students as they were very easily swayed, Brook soon walked up as Yuri was signing them up.
"Oh Brook, you're here. How did the first Tankery match go?" Yuri asked as she turned as she continued to sign students up.
"Pretty easy but I still want to get out of this mess." Brook admitted as she didn't want to be a part of the program and wanted to have a peaceful life. Yuri looked at her as she began to speak.
"It will all be over soon, about more than half of the school has joined our side within a matter of weeks." Yuri told her as she knew they needed to continue waiting and when the moment was right, strike back hard and break them before they had a chance to retaliate.
"Wow that fast, I thought it would take longer seeing how the students wouldn't be so swayed?" Brook told her as they pretty much had a chunk of the school that was joining their cause but she knew they needed more.
"Yep, many of the older students were keen on joining since they wanted to be a part of the day we finally get rid of tyranny over the school and bring back what made the school great in the first place." Yuri told her as more students were signing up. Brook looked at her as she was wondering if their chances of success were going to be good. However unknown to them watching them was Alisa as she wanted to know why there were so few students attending their Barbecue. She was taking notes about the meeting as she knew this wasn't good. She soon spoke into her radio notifying Kay who was on the other side.
"Kay I think we got ourselves a problem and why we got few students attending the cookout." Alisa began. Kay was eating when she heard Alisa call her from the radio.
"So what is it? Can you explain to me?" Kay asked as she was munching away from her burgers. Alisa looked at the radio as she began to speak quietly in the hopes she didn't get caught.
"They're recruiting all the young freshmen into their ranks as they pretty much want to get their numbers up. Current end goal is unknown." Alisa reported over to Kay as she knew what they were doing now but their end goals weren't thought out yet. Kay soon swallowed as she spoke to Alisa.
"Look I don't know if they are a threat or not but they seem pretty harmless until we get more information from them, for now just follow them around and we can hopefully capture one of their members to find out what their goals are." Kay told her as she was setting up a rebellion but it was still murky about the details. All they knew was that something was going to happen.
"Okay we'll have to monitor Brook in the meantime as we will have to determine her day to day activities with the group. Even though we had an easy win against Maginot Girls Academy, the rebellion when it launches will put a serious damper on us and our experience with the school." Alisa laid out her plans as they knew one of their tankers could be staging something that the school wouldn't be prepared for. Kay sighed as she finished up the conversation.
"I wouldn't go around stalking her if I was you, but we need to catch her off balance to make sure she isn't staging anything. Who knows that might happen with the school." Kay responded, licking her fingers. Alisa nodded as the scene shifted back to Yuri and the group.
"Okay we're getting propaganda posters up to try to get more students into the group and we need to start arming ourselves with whatever we can find. We'll need to start burning some of our vodka supplies if we are going to fight back." Yuri told them as she wanted to start making Molotov's if Saunders begins bringing out their tanks. Brook looked at her as she finished up. "This fight is going to be fierce but brief, Saunders will have no morale left. The Senior's will be making more propaganda and hanging it around the school, everyone will be behind our cause."
"Uh Yuri I have a question, what if Saunders contacts help and help does arrive. We'll be hopelessly outnumbered and our resources will dry up since we'll be using them to fight against the Saunders tanks. We need to up the resources and set some aside for this." Brook was worried in case Saunders decided to call for backup. Yuri looked at her as she knew that she had the plan sorted out.
"Srednyaya shkola russkikh koroley middle school will be supplying us with additional students to our ranks, a good chunk of the massive school in fact. They got a crap ton of airsoft rifles and airsoft maxims that they want to give away and we'll take them off of their hands as well as a lot of firecracker artillery. We should be able to hold them off and they'll cover our logistics. SSISSN would also send volunteers if they needed to as they don't have good relations with Saunders. The other schools we don't even know." Yuri explained that others were willing to lend a helping hand to help them out but Brook gulped as she knew that this couldn't be enough.
"Okay then we better put these plans into action soon and we'll just wait for Saunders to make one wrong move and then we'll strike." Brook told Yuri as she wanted to carry out her plans. Yuri nodded as she began to giggle to herself. Her plan was coming together at long last.
Alisa walked back to Kay and Naomi as she was listening onto their plans. She soon sat down as she began to speak to them as the situation looked dire.
"Listen, I need to talk to you two for a moment, I have got a very scary scenario that is going to go down." Alisa began as Kay and Naomi looked at her. Kay knew full well of Alisa and the fact she was spying on the group.
"What's that?" Kay asked wondering what was going on? Alisa began explaining as she wanted to address this to Kay.
"That one black haired brown eyed girl says she wants to bring the principal from the Middle school to replace you and she'll do any means necessary to remove you even if it means starting a rebellion, and any violent measures to be honest." Alisa outlined the situation for Kay as Kay was shocked about this.
"Who is starting a rebellion against Saunders, the school of freedom, tanks and food? I remain the best out of them all." Kay asked as she was wondering about this. Alisa looked at her as she began to speak.
"Brook is a part of the rebellion for unknown reasons but we need to find out who the ring leader is." Alisa told her as Kay was furious. Her gunner was there to stab her in the back and join the rebellion. Naomi soon spoke.
"The brown eyed and black haired girl is Yuri, a former Srednyaya shkola russkikh koroley middle school member as I attended school with her, she is a grade above Kay as she is fiercely loyal to the principal that she calls the Czar and got me on trouble on numerous occasions for disagreeing with her. I'm surprised the school is lending the rebels a hand in this considering the school is on the verge of collapse since no one respects the principal. If the rebels win and the supposed czar comes and takes over, the school is going to suffer as a result." Naomi explained that the rebellion would put and autocrat in charge of the school as Kay had just calmed down as she began to explain.
"Am I hearing this right? The school will suffer if the rebels win? We need to get some of the students on our side so we can crush them with our tanks, we don't know what they might be fighting with to combat us. Himari is taking herself too far sometimes but Yuri, I think that she might be planning on something like her but somewhat differently." Kay told them as she wanted a definite plan to be put into action if a rebellion does break out. Alisa and Naomi looked at her then each other before Naomi began to explain.
"Kay if I know this correctly, the students while willing to fight for you are very easily swayed, especially the older students that have been here long before you have. They'll stab you in the back much like Brook has done to us. It's best we contact help from other schools to see if they'll lend supplies and additional firepower to help boost up our arsenal. The Middle schools from what I heard are more than willing to stick their necks out for you. Yuri is most likely relying off of intimidation tactics to get what she wants but it's not a shock force as much as a show of force." Naomi told her that they might need to rely on unconventional tactics to help keep the rebellion down.
"If those schools want a fight, they'll get a fight. Send the message out to all the school ships in the area to be on high alert that Saunders is going to have a rebellion, and if it does we need to put the Boxers down with students and equipment from other schools." Kay told them as she was willing to let everyone else do the hard work for her. Naomi looked at her as she was taking note.
"Yes Kay." She soon went over to a buzzer as she began radioing the school ships that were nearby to begin mobilization since the situation in Saunders is at a boiling point and will explode over.
Meanwhile in ST. Gloriana's, Darjeeling, was picking up the radio waves of someone in need of help. The 15 year old blonde was enjoying tea as the radio was coming through. Orange Pekoe was picking up the message too as it was clear that Saunders needed help.
"Oh dear, Orange Pekoe, it looks like Kay is in hot water, her school looks like they are about to go to war as we need to step in and diffuse the situation at hand." Darjeeling began explaining to Orange Pekoe. Orange Pekoe looked at her as she began explaining.
"What can we send? Just having us by her side isn't enough, we're not as big as Saunders is but seeing the situation deteriorate like this, we need to send more help." Orange Pekoe explained that they don't have the resources to send to Saunders in case of a prolonged war. Darjeeling soon thought about something as she knew it was unconventional but crucial to the situation Saunders is in.
"What about Mittelschule des Königsimperiums? Those students would most likely stomp on the rebellion and ask for seconds, if there's a fight going on, they're more than eager to send students to the front lines to help take out the rebellion?" Darjeeling told her as she knew a lot of schools had close relationships with the middle school. Orange Pekoe smiled as she knew that idea might work.
"Give me the phone as I will give out the message." Orange Pekoe told her as Darjeeling got out the phone as she was one step ahead of her.
"No need, I'll call the principal myself." Darjeeling told her as she began ringing the number. Soon she puts the phone to her ear as she was waiting for who was on the other side. On the other side, the principal picks up the phone as he begins to call them.
"Hello?" He asked as he had the phone to his ear. Darjeeling was on the other side as she began to speak.
"Principal Wilhelm, we got a frightening message from Saunders." Darjeeling began. Wilhelm was listening closely as he was wondering what it was.
"Are some of the students planning a revolt, my messengers reported this to me a few minutes ago when they began picking up a distress signal from a student named Kay." Wilhelm asked as he was getting the message too. Darjeeling soon spoke to him.
"That's exactly it. Kay is looking for Volunteers to help in case one does break out. Most of the school is against her and other schools are throwing in behind their backs to make sure she does get out." Darjeeling responded as she knew what exactly was going on.
"I'll send 100 of my best students to Saunders after our Zangō-sen Tournament is complete, we just did round 1 and quarter finals are coming up next. Let's hope your sport holds the rebels over long enough for us to complete our task at hand." Wilhelm told Darjeeling as he was going to send some volunteers to Saunders in case this did break out, Darjeeling nodded as she began to speak.
"Okay good, I just hope Saunders doesn't get knocked out early so that means this sport would hopefully be enough to stall them. We'll wait for Kay until more information comes along." Darjeeling told him as Wilhelm nodded; they soon hung up as they knew they had help. "Well Kay is getting help, let's hope the other schools are willing to throw themselves behind her if we should crush the rebellion."
[A/N]: Things are going to get ugly on the sides of Saunders as both sides are going to receive help but it turns out Kay isn't going to go down easily without a fight as Naomi can see through Yuri's plans and see what she might do. All the schools would most likely get prepared to mobilize to fight the rebellion. We need more views to keep this rolling. That is all.
Quarter finals for the rounds: Jatkosota High School vs Saunders University High School, Magyar girl's Academy vs Kuromorimine Girls Academy, Anzio Girl's High School vs Viking Fisheries High School, Pravda Girls High School vs St Gloriana's Girls Academy.